Who We Are Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. We invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks. Emergence combines operational rigor with a growth equity mindset, driving sustainable ARR growth, profitability improvements, and industry-leading customer outcomes. The Mission You're building the infrastructure foundation that runs across a growing portfolio of B2B SaaS companies - not just maintaining existing pipelines, but designing the system from the ground up and making it production-ready for a team that ships fast.

What You'll Do

Own and evolve cloud infrastructure on AWS - ECS Fargate, ECR, ALB, VPC, and Secrets Manager - provisioned through Terraform or AWS CDK Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions - Docker image builds, rolling deployments with health checks, and rollback procedures Manage the containerized production stack - Node 20, Express 5, BullMQ, Valkey, and Neon Postgres via pgBouncer Own observability end to end - Grafana, Loki, Promtail, and CloudWatch - with alerting that catches issues before users report them Define and enforce environment strategy - dev, staging, and production with proper isolation, branch protection, and deployment governance Harden security posture - IAM scoping, AWS Secrets Manager, dependency scanning in CI, and SSL/TLS across all services Maintain Linux VPS and Windows Server infrastructure running Python automation services via systemd and NSSM Write runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, and incident response playbooks for all critical services

What We're Looking For

Must-haves 5+ years of hands-on production DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience Shipped and maintained IaC using Terraform or AWS CDK on real production systems Designed CI/CD pipelines from scratch - not just maintained existing ones Managed containerized workloads in production using Docker and AWS ECS Owned an observability stack - structured logging, dashboards, and alerting - not just set it up Hardened a production environment - secrets management, IAM policies, dependency scanning, SSL/TLS Administered Linux servers in production - system design, process management, server hardening Responded to and led resolution of production incidents with documented post-mortems Nice-to-haves PostgreSQL operations - connection pooling, pgBouncer, Neon serverless BullMQ or Redis/Valkey in production Windows Server administration - NSSM, Task Scheduler Snyk, Trivy, or equivalent dependency scanning in CI AWS Solutions Architect or equivalent certification Who You Are You've spent your career making infrastructure serve engineering teams, not the other way around. You write IaC from day one and build staging environments without being asked. You write runbooks before declaring a service production-ready. You've inherited broken infrastructure and measurably improved it. You care deeply about reliability and won't ship infrastructure you don't trust. You make architectural recommendations, not just implementation calls and you push back when the right answer is to simplify rather than build.

What We Offer

Competitive salary Ownership to define and decide infrastructure across Central and PortCos workstreams 100% remote with flexible hours and async-first culture Professional development budget for AWS certifications and relevant tooling Exposure to multiple SaaS businesses and scaling challenges across the portfolio